Vetted Terraform Professionals

Mike Gardiner

Screened

Technology Executive / Engineering Director specializing in AI-driven platform transformation

Lehi, UT12y exp

“Built a 0-to-1 iOS mobile gardening application that helps users plan, track, and harvest crops with pest control guidance, weather, and climate-zone-based planting date recommendations. Demonstrated strong customer discovery and MVP-first product execution, including a major data challenge: compiling US climate zone data for every ZIP code from widely dispersed public sources into an app-ready database.”

Madhu Sriram Sengottu Velan

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and distributed services

Chennai, IN2y exp

“Backend/AI engineer from an early-stage Japan-based startup (WorkAI) who built a multi-tenant RAG system integrating Notion/Slack/Google Drive with Pinecone and OpenAI, including a chatbot retrieval workflow. Experienced in production reliability (rate limits, retries, verification layers), strong Python/FastAPI engineering practices, and PostgreSQL performance optimization; currently based in India and needs sponsorship.”

Venkat Palaparthi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and secure enterprise platforms

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership in banking/identity & entitlements systems, building Spring Boot + Postgres/Redis services and React dashboards, then deploying on AWS EKS with Jenkins CI/CD. Demonstrated impact through reduced authorization latency and fewer access-related support tickets, plus strong observability and reliability practices (CloudWatch, tracing, autoscaling, Kafka pipelines with DLQs and reconciliation).”

Kwadwo Poku

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud platforms

Yonkers, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built and launched an end-to-end Ad Scheduler that automated campaign creation across Google Ads and Meta using Azure Functions/Service Bus, PostgreSQL, and a React frontend—reducing manual marketing ops work. Also shipped a production internal RAG chatbot leveraging a data warehouse + Cube semantic layer, Gemini embeddings, vector search, and Claude, with Langfuse tracing and brand-based access controls; work was cut short due to layoffs.”

srilekha pothula

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines for healthcare and financial services

Bloomfield, CT4y exp

“Data engineer with ~4 years of experience (Cigna) building and operating Azure Data Factory pipelines for healthcare claims/member/provider data at 2–3M records/day. Emphasizes reliability and downstream safety via schema/data-quality validation, quarantine workflows, idempotent processing, and backfills; also improved runtime ~20% through SQL optimization and served curated datasets through versioned views and well-documented, analyst-friendly interfaces.”

“Data Engineer (TCS) who owned an end-to-end CRM analytics pipeline for Bayer’s eSalesWeb integration, ingesting from Salesforce APIs/databases/S3 and serving analytics-ready datasets via PostgreSQL/S3 for Tableau. Drove measurable outcomes: ~60% reduction in manual data-quality effort, ~30% lower latency through SQL optimization, and ~35% improved stability via monitoring, retries, and idempotent processing.”

“Healthcare AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production ML and LLM systems at McKesson, spanning clinical risk prediction and RAG-based documentation tools. Stands out for combining deep clinical-data experience, HIPAA-aware deployment practices, and measurable impact through reduced readmissions, clinician workflow gains, and 20% to 30% faster ML delivery for engineering teams.”

Apoorv Bankey

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

New York City, NY6y exp

“Engineer who uses AI and multi-agent workflows as a force multiplier while keeping architecture, security, scalability, and production quality under human control. Shared a concrete example of accelerating a backend-heavy SaaS email ingestion platform with authentication, role-based APIs, database models, and deployment setup using agent-style development and review.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership of a production customer plan activation and account management flow at T-Mobile, spanning Java/Spring Boot APIs, React frontend, and Docker-based CI/CD deployments. Demonstrated performance/scalability work (query optimization, indexing, caching) and measured success via improved retrieval speed and reduced support tickets.”

Harika M

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and enterprise platforms

Plano, TX6y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted development, using tools like Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate coding while maintaining strict validation for correctness, security, and performance. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent incident-resolution workflow for a financial platform, with specialized agents for log analysis, root cause identification, fix suggestions, and test generation.”

“DevOps- and infrastructure-focused engineer who is already applying AI in practical delivery workflows, including Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and multi-agent automation. Stands out for combining AI-driven productivity with disciplined validation through testing, code review, and security checks, and for leading cross-functional AI integration across development, QA, and infrastructure.”

“Built an itinerary-planning startup MVP (LessGO) using React/TypeScript and a Node/Express backend integrating Google Maps and Gemini AI. Notably optimized Gemini latency from ~40 seconds to ~3 seconds through frontend caching, debugging, and model selection, and has TA experience supporting others with deployments and database connectivity.”

KUSHWANTH MUTHYALA

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech

Irvine, CA6y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML inference pipelines using SageMaker, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, and Kafka-backed real-time data systems. Brings a strong distributed-systems mindset and has already operated in a tech lead capacity through architecture decisions, code reviews, and cross-functional coordination. Especially compelling for teams building production AI/ML platforms that need both practical execution and sound engineering judgment.”

rhema junapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native healthcare and insurance platforms

Albany, OR3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare and claims-domain experience who has shipped AI-assisted documentation and fraud-scoring systems using Angular, ASP.NET Core, OpenAI APIs, and ML tooling. Stands out for building compliance-aware, traceable agentic architectures with graceful degradation, and for a nuanced understanding of AI failure modes in production.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience building and evolving financial-services workflow systems where correctness, data integrity, and reliable state transitions outweigh raw throughput. Emphasizes idempotent, contract-driven FastAPI APIs with defense-in-depth security (JWT + row-level security) and careful, low-blast-radius migrations using feature flags, dual writes/shadow reads, and incremental rollout.”

“Robotics software/ML engineer who built perception and navigation-related ML systems for autonomous supermarket carts, including object detection, shelf recognition, and obstacle avoidance. Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner who optimized real-time performance (reported 50% latency reduction) and deployed containerized ROS/ML pipelines at scale using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who has built and operated a cloud-native media ingestion/processing platform in Python (Django/DRF, FastAPI) with Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, emphasizing multi-tenant security and reliability. Delivered AWS production systems combining EKS and Lambda with Terraform + GitHub Actions/Helm, and built Glue-based ETL pipelines with strong schema-evolution and data-quality practices; also modernized SAS analytics into Python on AWS. Seeking fully remote roles with a $120K–$140K base range.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience modernizing high-volume transactional systems by decomposing monoliths into Spring Boot microservices on AWS, using Kafka for async workflows and Redis/SQL tuning for latency. Has built Python/FastAPI services with strong API contracts and production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level security), and proactively hardened payment flows against race conditions and double-charging via idempotency.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“GenAI engineer who has deployed production LLM/RAG chatbots for internal document search, focusing on reliability (hallucination reduction via prompt guardrails + retrieval filtering) and performance (latency improvements via caching). Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration for multi-step agent workflows and iterates using monitoring/logs and benchmark-driven evaluation while partnering closely with product and business teams.”

“Backend/web API engineer with hands-on experience deploying .NET Core APIs to Azure App Service and stabilizing production systems through disciplined log-driven troubleshooting, environment configuration management, and SQL performance tuning (execution plans, query rewrites, indexing). Has also debugged cross-layer incidents involving DB locks and network latency, and modifies Python/XML automation scripts to meet customer-specific requirements while improving logging and performance.”

“LLM/agent builder who has shipped production AI systems in the wellness space, including an LLM-powered food tracking product used by 5000+ users and a voice/call-routing onboarding workflow using LangGraph/LangChain with LiveKit and Twilio. Strong focus on practical reliability work: latency reduction, retrieval/embedding tuning, and CI-driven evaluation with simulations and metrics.”

“Software engineer with deep healthcare claims domain experience who has owned customer-facing portals end-to-end (Java/Spring Boot + React/TypeScript) and improved usability/performance based on real user feedback. Built microservices using REST and RabbitMQ with strong observability (Splunk/cloud metrics), and delivered an internal claims investigation dashboard that streamlined operations through centralized data, search, and filtering.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the software layer for an autonomous warehouse sorting system, spanning navigation/path planning, task scheduling, and backend services. Deep hands-on ROS 2 Foxy experience (Nav2/costmaps) and real-time multi-robot debugging, using simulation-driven analysis plus incremental/partial re-planning to handle dynamic obstacles in production-like warehouse environments.”